Tool or appliance for use in enabling the joints of leather, canvas, and similar belting to be joined together.



v PATENTED DEC. 5; 1905. LL & P. ,G

ENABLIN ING TO B FILED OCT.

V BM H Q E A UNN. v V G THE JOINTS 0P LEATHER, BJOINED TOGETHER. I

y it," I I A II IIIIH To all whom it may concern;

UNI ED, sTA Es PATENT oEEIoE.

FREDERICK MITCHELL, OF SALE, AND FRANCIS GUNN, OF GORTON,

NEAR MANCHESTER. ENGLAND.-

'TOOL R APPLIANCE FOR SE IN ENABLING THE JOI NTS 0F LEATHER, CANVAS, AND SIMILAR BELTING A TOYBE mm TOGETHER.

Specification of Letters Patent. i A

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed October 16, 190 35 SerialNo. 177,219;

Be it known that We,FREDERICKl\/IITOH ELL, agent, residing at 55 Washway road,

Sale, in the county of Chester, and FRANCIS GUNN, manager, residing at Station Road,

.Gorton, near Manchester, inthe county-of Lancaster, England, subjects of the King ofv Great Britain and Ireland, have invented an Improved Tool or Afppliance for Use in Enablmg the Joints 0 Leather, Canvas, and

Similar Belting to be Joined Together, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved tool or a pliance for use in enabling the joints of leatl ier, canvas, and similar belting to be, joined together, and is particularlyapplicable for use in connection with belt-joints formed of a series of separate Wire staples of approxi- I dition to enable the latter to mately U-shaped character and in which the ends of the staples are bent inwardly at right ,angles to the body of the staple, so as to form reference-to the accompanying drawings, in

which t Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the appliance designed in accordance with our invention; Fig. 2, plan of same; Fig. 3, sectional elevation showing a doubleform of the device, and Fig. 4, plan of same.

In carrying out ourinvention in its simplest form we employ a bed or bracket a,

which may be ofa portable-character or secured by means of screws 1) or bolts to a bench.

or more'extended bed 0. The bracket ais made of any suitable width, and at one portion of it we arrange a series of slits or slots (1, into which the staples e in their 0 en form, as indicated, may be separately p aced. The slits are so arranged as to hold the sta les in vertical planes, with the bottom leg 0 each resting upon a stepped portion j, the ends of I assing orme form of the bracket;

the end of the belt in which the staples are to be inserted to be passed between the points 6, as indicated in Fig. 1. The staples e are held. inposition by two rods-or pins 9, one passing inside'the angle formed between the two'legs ofthe staples, while the otherone is arranged at the rear of the staples, the former I limiting the forward movement of the staples l thestaples'b'eing sufficiently open to allow and the latter limiting their backward move ment in the slits d. These pins are inserted through holes formed in the bracket a after the staples have been roughly assembled in position.

To make the joint, the ends of the belt h are I inserted between the staples, as before described after which the top legs of the staples are hammered or pressed down or closed together, so that their points a may enter the material composing the belt. While we may completely press home the points 6 ofthe stap es while they are held in position by the pins g,we do not prefer to do so, but rather to partially pressythem home and afterward withdraw the pins and place the end of the belt in position on the top portion '5 of the bracket a, with the looped ends of the staples into a further series of slits or slots on the top portion of the bracket a. In this position the staples can be completely hammered or ressed home. On the two ends of the bets being presented together from opposite directions a central pin may be passed through the staples.

In Figs. 3 and 4 we have indicated a double (Shown in. Figs. l and 2.). The construction is exactly the same as already referred to and is intended to enable the op osing ends of the belt joint to be staple brought together, and the jointin A pinsinserted without having to turn the be t round. The slits d at one end may be placed opposite the divisions d at the other.

' We are well aware that prior to the date of our applicationfor patent belt-jointing devices have been in use consisting of a baseplate capable of having hinged and fixed thereto two bars or top plates which can be brought together over a series of shallow rooves inthe base-plate, the said top plates eing rovided on their inner sides with a series o grooves of a vertical character registeringwith the shallow grooves in the baseplate and adapted to receive wire staples and a stapling-tool for securing the ends of the belt together, such belt ends being clamped down by the top plates while the stapling operation is being performed. To no such apparatus do we lay claim.

What We claim as our invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. A tool or appliance for the purposes referred to comprising a bracket formed with a stepped portion integral with the bracket and having a series of slits formed in it adapted to receive jointing-staples and also having a hole formed transversely through the intermediate portions of the bracket between the slits and a pin adapted to be passed through said hole substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A tool or appliance for the purposes re- In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses. FREDERICK MITCHELL. FRANCIS GUN N Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, WILLIAM A. CoLEBoURN. 

